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Thread | Context
at 08:00 9 Aug 2025
Last night was not a great performance, but it’s not down to Morsy going, OH not playing etc, it’s just Ipswich. In fact last night was better than I had hoped.
The truth is we have under McK we have never done particularly well away from home in very partisan and vitriolic grounds.
I would draw comparison to Birmingham away as a similar challenge to Leeds away, and last time we went to Leeds, when our confidence was higher and with an established, settled side, we played like we did tonight, but got thumped 4-0.
Coming away from Birmingham with a point is good
Limiting a side who scored 47 goals at home to a handful of half chances is good
Coming from behind and not caving under intense pressure is good
Doing the above missing 2 or 3 key players is good
Our performance was not great, but credit Birmingham for how they set out to disrupt before we criticise our players too much. Birmingham were obviously worried about us and set out to nullify us as their first priority, not many sides will be able to do that this season.
Panic not people, it’s nowhere near as bad as many of you are making it out to be.
Edit: One additional thing to note, last time in Brum we scraped a late earned 2-2 draw, with our established, promoted side against a far weaker and hurtling towards relegation side. We just don’t do well at certain grounds and atmospheres.
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Thread | Keep the faith
at 22:03 8 Aug 2025
Our worst performance for maybe 2-3 years, yet get a draw away at the 3rd favourites who are unbeaten at home for over a year, and who only conceded 11 goals at home last season.
I firmly believe we can’t play that badly again.
Not ideal, but let’s take it. |
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Thread | Transcontinental Race
at 10:46 7 Aug 2025
Anyone follow the “dots”, looks like Victor Bosoni is about to win this years event.
He’s got about 20km left to go but since they started on July 27th, he’s covered over 4,800km averaging over 450km a day. Been on the move for over 7.5 days since then and only rested for just over 3 days in total.
Incredible effort considering it’s self supported and solo. |
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Thread | Tuanzebe
at 10:37 6 Aug 2025
I know he’s now an ex player, but I assume he’s injured again. Played from start but only lasted about 20 mins in Burnley’s friendly at Shrewsbury on 26th July and not featured since.
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Thread | Woolfenden and Broadhead
at 18:19 30 Jul 2025
I know I am going to get flamed for this, but are Woolfie and Broadhead players which get are better when they are not playing than the actual impact they have when playing.
They are good players don’t get me wrong, but I don’t understand the reaction on here when they are criticised and especially now when unhappiness/moves are being discussed.
With Woolfie I know people are always keen to see a local lad make it at their local club, that makes sense, but he is only a solid Championship level centre back.
As for Broadhead, he is without doubt a creative player, but not the match winner many seem to make out he is. He was a key member of the promotion teams but I just don’t see a place for him going forward. While he’s creative his stats for assists is disappointing and he is lacking in both speed and strength.
There’s a certain romance attached to the promotion winning players which the more recent signings don’t get the benefit of.
Like I said, I wait to be shot down. |
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Thread | Enzo Maresca
at 22:33 13 Jul 2025
Seems to be quite a talented manager. Turned a relegated Leicester side into Championship winners, qualified Chelsea for the Champions league, win the Europa Conference league and now the Club World Cup.
Still unable to get one over on McKenna in the 4 meetings though over the last two years.
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Thread | Frank to Spurs?
at 08:14 13 Jun 2025
Didn't see that coming, wonder if there has been any discussion about who then fills the vacant Brentford role? |
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Thread | Tuanzebe
at 10:30 7 Jun 2025
Without doubt a talented player but his injury record surely must be taken into consideration when discussing potential contract. Pulled out of latest international squad with injury.
He’s missed over 100 games in his career due to injuries, that’s pretty much 3 seasons, like I said great player when fit but generally only available 2/3 of the time. |
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Thread | Bizarrely
at 21:56 28 May 2025
In a crap season we beat 2 out of the 3 European club tournament winners. It’s a funny old game. |
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Thread | Dallas
at 18:01 25 May 2025
Those of a certain age will remember when TV Series Dallas pretty much binned an entire season (Season 9) by pretending it was a dream, and Bobby Ewing stepped out the the shower in Season 10 and the series basically reset itself.
I wonder if I have a quick shower, this season will turn out to have just been a dream, and we are preparing for the opener against Liverpool. |
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Thread | Kieffer Moore
at 08:33 25 May 2025
Does he get the assist for Sunderland’s winner? |
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Thread | Lineker leaving the beeb
at 13:14 19 May 2025
Does it really deserve to get the headlines/coverage it is getting? Was all over Radio 5 this morning when I walked the dogs and I don't get it personally. |
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Thread | This season - disaster?
at 10:58 19 May 2025
Seen many people call this season a disaster and worse in our history etc etc.
While I have continued to get frustrated with the defeats, and nature of some of our play, I do see a number of our players showing improvement over the season, and that the issues have been more around the obvious gaps in key positions due to injury / poor form, particularly in CM and down the right flank.
I'm not going to judge this season until we are into next season, as I think the players have probably learned and developed a lot more than we realise, and that we will reap that benefit next season (for the players who remain).
Crappy season, yes, but also hopefully a platform for the future. |
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Thread | Watching Arsenal Palace
at 21:54 23 Apr 2025
And thinking to myself back in Autumn/Winter when we were talking about how it was about finishing above the likes of Palace etc who were our targets to better. Seems a long time ago and quite naive now to me. How did so many of us misjudge how good most PL teams are? [Post edited 23 Apr 21:55]
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Thread | PL - 2 tiers
at 17:55 21 Apr 2025
Very soon there will be a set of teams such as us, Leeds, Sheff Utd, Leicester etc which may have squads too strong for the Championship but not strong enough for the PL as it currently stands. Just wonder how long it will be until the 2nd tier premier league division starts to get discussed again.
Obviously it significantly weakens the EFL and not something I would be in favour of, but you can see the argument start to grow as an alternative to the PL becoming a closed shop with no promotion / relegation.
If the Premier league were to expand to 2 divisions of 18 teams and assuming this season's 20 teams are part of it I wonder what the additional 16 teams would be from the EFL which would make up the rest . . . not sure whether it would be the top 16 from the champs or maybe pulling in some of the larger Lg 1 sides as well. |
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Thread | Szmodics
at 12:22 21 Apr 2025
Feel for him, ploughed his way through the lower leagues, gets his chance at PL football only to be injured for large part of season and at 30 in Sept the chance to play in the top flight again may be slipping by.
Showed he could compete at this level with his goals and work rate and was a big loss to our season, hope he gets another chance ideally with us in 26-27 after finishing championship top scorer next season. |
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